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It is always interesting and educational to review the painting journey that you have been on. I like to line up older paintings, chronologically, which helps me to see the improvements I have made and the ones I would like to make in the future. Always an interesting exercise.

Okay, I'm jumping the gun on spring, I admit it. In fact,
it is snowing again as I type, heading into April. The green foliage
has emerged from the ground but the iris buds are not ready to peek out yet. I'm more than ready to see this iris plant once more. Enough with the snow!

It's nice to have a model that is always available and changes each time you paint it.

What are your favorite things to paint? I started off with simple still life, went through a flower stage and now find I am doing more landscape than anything else. My goals this year are many. I want to paint more larger pieces, more figurative pieces and to add quality giclee' prints to my website.

I hope I can stay on track. Do you have a plan for where you want to be 12 months from now? I would love to hear about it.

This painting recently SOLD. She's featuring here as her Swan Song from my Collection. Inspired by a huge arrangement sent to me by dear friends who could not make it to a solo exhibition of my paintings in Ireland. I kept her as mine for a long time until, like a crystal, she needed to find her new home. I'll miss her.

It occasionally snows in Dallas. Even with a big snowfall, it soon melts. However, it is beautiful while it lasts. I love the deep blues and purples in this scene, contrasting with the bright whites and blues of the snow. This is a path that I would follow into the woods. How about you?

I have spent three residencies at Cill Rialaig, a restored famine village in Co Kerry, Ireland, during the last few years. The village teeters on the edge of a cliff overlooking Ballinskelligs Bay. My residencies all took place during January ... a very wild, windy, rainy, sometimes snowy, and of course cold, time of year.

For those of you who can feel or appreciate the spirit world, with a children's graveyard less than a kilometre from the stone-house famine village, and with the weather so wild, you can imagine how I felt those presences!

I produced a collection of acrylic paintings in that time, all very loosely painted, with flicks of the paint brush ... and most of them came out very representative of past lives indeed. This is one of them.

For sale HERE or click the image or its title to take you to the sale page.

I started this piece by creating lots of texture on the canvas, followed by a coat of acrylic cad. red. Then the fun began as I brought out my oils and just pushed paint around until I was happy with the results. It was that same feeling I used to get when I would stomp around in rain puddles as a kid.

I know I will soon go back to representative work, but today, I am happy with this,

On this Easter weekend, I thought I would share an Award Winning piece that is a combination of palette knife and brush. This was painted in four layers with the palette knife being the final layer. There is an illusion of morning mist in the background with a few trees peeking through. It has a calmness about it that is just beautiful. I hope you enjoy.